DAVID Cameron savaged Labour leader Ed Miliband as “weak and wrong” yesterday in a furious Commons row over the Government’s links with media tycoon Rupert Murdoch.

The Prime Minister’s temper snapped after he was summoned to Parliament to answer further ­questions from MPs about his under-fire Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

Red-faced with anger over having to face the Commons on the issue once again, Mr Cameron accused the Labour leader of “bad judgment” and “rotten politics”.

And he warned MPs that voters were far more concerned about the squeeze on living standards and the ­continuing economic crisis than the long-running saga about ministers’ links with media chiefs.

The furious clash erupted after Speaker John Bercow agreed to a Labour request for an urgent ­parliamentary question.

Labour MPs were pressing for an inquiry into whether Mr Hunt broke the ministerial code by being too close to executives at Mr Murdoch’s News Corporation while overseeing the company’s £8billion bid to take full control of satellite broadcaster BSkyB.

We have learnt something about the Labour leader today, and I think it’s something he’ll regret

Senior Tories were furious with Mr Bercow agreeing to the request, allowing Mr Cameron to be summoned to the Commons for the first time since the urgent question system for ministers was introduced a decade ago.

Mr Cameron was forced to abandon plans to spend the day on the local election campaign trail that included a keynote speech.

One Downing Street source said: “This was a really bad advertisement for Parliament. People outside of Westminster are far more worried about their jobs and living standards.”

The BBC quoted an unnamed ­senior Tory as saying: “The Speaker is rotten with bias. He should not be Speaker.”

In the Commons, Mr ­Cameron made a barbed quip about already having dealt with the issue at Prime ­Minister’s Questions last week while glancing at the Speaker.

Mr Miliband accused him of “defending the indefensible” by “protecting the Culture Secretary’s job while up and down the country hundreds of thousands are losing theirs”.

The Labour leader said: “The minister is in clear breach of the ministerial code and the Prime Minister stands by and does nothing.”

His swipe triggered a furious response from Mr Cameron, who tore into Labour’s secret dealings with the Murdoch clan under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He said: “Fifteen years of secret meetings, pyjama parties and all the rest and not one word of ­apology. What a lot of self-serving double ­standards we have had from the party opposite.

“I’m not belittling this issue, it is serious, but it’s not as ­serious as the eurozone, jobs, the investment, the debt we have to deal with. It’s time we focused on that.”

He told Mr Miliband: “Endlessly questioning the integrity of someone when you don’t have the evidence is bad judgment, rotten politics and plain wrong. We have learnt something about the Labour leader today, and I think it’s something he’ll regret.”

Mr Cameron also took swipes at other Labour MPs, accusing Chris Bryant of getting facts wrong. He said: “A man of honour would apologise.”

Earlier, Tory party ­chairman Baroness Warsi said the row, party feuding and point-scoring were ­turning voters off politics. She said: “What they care about is their schools, their future.”

But former Tory Cabinet minister Lord Tebbit said the row added to ­setbacks that gave the impression the Government was “accident prone” and “not very well organised”.

He said: “It springs more from a real lack of vision. The Coalition is so absorbed with being a coalition that it cannot give any clear voice to what should be the dominant partner – the Conservative Party.”